Knopf, May 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. The hugely illuminating story of how a popular breed of dog became the most demonized and supposedly the most dangerous of dogs--and what role humans have played in the transformation. When Bronwen Dickey brought her new dog home, she saw no traces of the..... More
Institute of Pacific Studies, December 1982. Oversized Hardcover. More
American Fisheries Society, February 1994. Cloth. Quarto -- Eight & 3/4-inch x Eleven & 1/4-inch; In edgeworn dustjacket, slightly rubbed. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine & front board. Complete number string. (1079 pages). More
Houghton Mifflin, October 1985. Paper Back. After spending seven years in the Kalahari Desert, the authors provide a beautiful documentary examining wildlife in the Kalahari. Their adventure is the focus of a National Geographic special for television airing in January insert. More
Lewis Publishing, February 1995. Hardcover. This new edition of the best-selling book describes the main types of fishways and fish facilities used around the world to assist the passage of fish over dams and other obstructions to their migration. It also focuses on the protection of fish (mainly young fish)..... More
Indiana University Press, December 1984. Cloth. Dusty, soiled cloth with gold lettering. Soiling to end pages. Clean text. Edgeworn jacket with soiling, especially to verso. Quarto. Clean text. More
Yale University Press, November 1990. Cloth. Madagascar, isolated for at least 120 million years and the fourth largest island in the world, is home to a remarkable variety of endemic animals and plants. This book is a guide to the unusual bird life of Madagascar. 40 watercolour illustrations provide clear..... More
Apollo Booksellers, June 1990. Hardcover. Written by two of the leading explorers in the birdlife of the High Andes, this book sets new standards in this field. The book is illustrated by Jon Fjeldsaa, one of the World's most gifted bird artists, who again has proved his accuracy with the..... More
Tanager Books, April 1983. First Edition. Cloth. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Clean, sound, with mildly worn jacket. More
University of Arizona Press, December 1991. First Edition. Cloth. In 1962 the Green River was poisoned and its native fishes killed so that the new Flaming Gorge Reservoir could be stocked with non-native game fishes for sportsmen. This incident was representative of water management in the West, where dams and..... More
Houghton Mifflin, January 1992. Hardcover. A passionate defender of the environment, Vice President Al Gore described in this now classic best-selling book how the engines of human civilization have brought us to the brink of catastrophe, threatening the destruction of nature and ultimately ourselves. Its groundbreaking analysis placed the environment..... More
Brill | Rodopi, June 2015. Trade Paperback. The essays collected in The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace consider connections between ecology, environmental ethics, nonviolence, and philosophy of peace. Edited by Andrew Fiala, this book includes essays written by important scholars in the field of peace studies, pacifism..... More
Routledge, October 2010. Trade Paperback. This book comprehensively addresses the economic, social and institutional difficulties in conserving biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it provides. It covers a wide range of issues such as biodiversity, ecosystem services and valuation in the context of diverse ecosystems such as tropical forests, marine..... More
Harvard University Press, 1939. First Edition. Cloth. Green cloth with gold lettering, mild wear. Previous owner's bookplate affixed front free end page. In much tattered, tape repaired jacket. More
William Morrow & Co, January 1966. Hardcover. In edgeworn jacket. Appears to be later printing. More
The Franklin Library, January 1983. Leather. Gilt edges and cover design. Moire endpapers. Embossed stamp on title page. Limited edition. More
Collins, August 1994. Trade Paperback. A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet."The first important book of the 21st century. It may well revolutionize the relationship between business and the environment."--Don Falk, Executive Director, Society for Ecological Restoration. More
University Of Chicago Press, November 1994. Paper Back. Today only about a thousand giant pandas survive in the wild. Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo on the one hand and threatened by human greed on the other, the panda is at extreme risk. Here, acclaimed naturalist George B. Schaller..... More
Cornell University Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. From 1971 to 1985, battles raged over Westway, a multibillion-dollar highway, development, and park project slated for placement in New York City. It would have projected far into the Hudson River, including massive new landfill extending several miles along Manhattan's Lower West Side..... More
Langdons, January 1989. Spiral Binding. More
